Mum, daughter travel 15 hours to Surabaya

After waiting close to 19 hours at Surabaya's Juanda International Airport, a Singaporean mother-daughter pair finally boarded a 2½-hour Scoot flight for Singapore, at 7pm Indonesian time yesterday.

Ms Rukzana Hamid, 36, and her 15-year-old daughter Nur Humairah, had been caught up in the chaos that followed the eruption of Bali's Mount Agung.

They were on the island for a holiday.

But the temporary closure of Bali's Ngurah Rai International Airport, 60km from the volcano, meant they had to make a tough 15½-hour journey from the island to Surabaya to try to get a flight back to Singapore.

They had to contend with traffic jams caused by flooding as well as a 10½-hour car ride with no toilet breaks and no sleep for Ms Rukzana.

The pair had been on holiday since Nov 24 and were scheduled to return to Singapore on Nov 29 on a Scoot flight. But the Bali airport was closed on Monday and Tuesday and reopened only on Wednesday.